{"product_id":"legacies-of-slavery-shared-history-and-family-conversations-with-myra-davis-branic-frye-gaillard-and-kern-jackson","title":"Legacies of Slavery: Shared History and Family Conversations with Myra Davis-Branic, Frye Gaillard, and Kern Jackson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDocuments conversations between two southern writers and friends whose families were intertwined in slavery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegacies of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e commemorates a story of racial reconciliation in the South.  Writers, educators, and friends Frye Gaillard and Myra Davis-Branic discovered a shared family history of slavery in Eutawville, South Carolina, where Davis-Branic?s family was enslaved by Gaillard?s family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2024, the University of South Alabama?s Kern Jackson moderated three conversations with Davis-Branic and Gaillard in Mobile. These conversations are presented here in an edited format. Davis-Branic and Gaillard discussed their intertwined family history and what they each learned from research into their ancestors. They relay origin stories and the role of a key grandparent who greatly impacted their lives. They also talk about their own trajectories in a historical context, the issue of slavery in their families, and the legacy of slavery for their children and families. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book concludes with short excerpts, one from Davis-Branic?s book \u003ci\u003eCornbread My Soul: The Davis Family of Eutawville, South Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e, and one from Gaillard?s family history, \u003ci\u003eLessons from the Big House: One Family?s Passage through the History of the South, a Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eLegacies of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a powerful and unique documentation for all who are interested in how two southern families, bound by slavery in the past and now by friendship and a degree of understanding, have found some measure of redemption.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46813949427922,"sku":"9780817362867","price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_b55fe2be-be9c-41fd-9572-c9c345f4db64.jpg?v=1775530830","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/legacies-of-slavery-shared-history-and-family-conversations-with-myra-davis-branic-frye-gaillard-and-kern-jackson","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}